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5 Secrets About ‘The Wizard of Oz at Sphere’: How AI Is Bringing Dorothy and the Yellow Brick Road to the World’s Biggest, Most Immersive Screen
Producer Jane Rosenthal on the groundbreaking AI that she's using to bring 'The Wizard of Oz' to the Sphere in Las Vegas.
This summer, Dorothy and Toto are going to skip down the Yellow Brick Road in the same cutting-edge Las Vegas arena that’s hosted everything from Phish and Backstreet Boys concerts to MMA fights. But updating the cinema classic for the venue’s massive 16K resolution wraparound interior LED screen required more than a dozen visual effects houses, teams of researchers and archivists, and Jane Rosenthal, the superstar producer behind “The Irishman” and “Meet the Parents.” Then there’s the fact that four directors (King Vidor, George Cukor, Victor Fleming and Richard Thorpe) worked on the movie at different points in its chaotic production and you have a recipe for some glaring mistakes.
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